Alexandre Chemetoff is a landscape architect, urban designer, and landscape artist whose practice has spanned scales from the garden to the city to the region. Among his many premiated projects are the designs for the redevelopment of the central island in Nantes, the renewal and reformation of neighborhoods and social housing in Nancy, and the celebrated Bamboo Garden at the Parc de la Villette in Paris. For a number of years he also taught at the École nationale supérieure de paysage in Versailles; in 2000, he received the French Grand Prix de l'urbanisme.